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Thursday, December 10, 2009

BTN is Alright, Some People in it May Not Be

The whole BTN fiasco is a long time coming.

I remember when I attended a BTN course during my college days, one of the songs I had to sing had the line, "Melayu kan gagah di nusantara." Personally, I had no problem with it, considering that I am as much Malay as I am Chinese by bloodline (and culturally, more Malay).

At the same time, I couldn't help notice the look of despise among my Chinese college mates who thought that the song belittled them, because they were not Malay.

He too is both Malay and Chinese by bloodline, and if I know him as well as I think I do, I don't think he would have allowed such a song to be sung again.

At the same time, no matter how well-intended the top management of BTN may have been, BTN is made up of people and some people may have become overzealous in expressing their Malay-ness. And now the issue has come back to bite the whole of BTN.

I hope the good people in BTN do not get tarred along with those who deserve to be told off.

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